Pakistan

Over 10,000 Taliban gathered on the border near Quetta to hear a speech by the brother of dead Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah. This meeting, called the ‘Martyred Mulla Dadullah Conference™ meeting was “arranged by MMA™s main party Jamiat-i-Ulema Islam (Fazl).” The Taliban killed 13 in an attack on the home of Tank’s political agent. The Taliban attacked a checkpoint in Bannu, and bombed a hospital in Landi Kotal.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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